Were I A Poet, I Would Dwell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKM BNBNOPOP QRQRSTUT VWVWXYXWere I a Poet I would dwell | A |
Not upon lonely height | B |
Nor cloistered in disdainful cell | A |
From human sound and sight | B |
I would live nestled near my kind | C |
Deep in a garden garth | D |
That they who loved my verse might find | C |
A pathway to my hearth | D |
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I would not sing of sceptred Kings | E |
The Tyrant and his thrall | F |
But everyday pathetic things | E |
That happen to us all | F |
The love that lasts through joy through grief | G |
The faith that never wanes | H |
And every wilding bird and leaf | G |
That gladdens English lanes | H |
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Nor would I shape for Fame my lay | I |
But only for the sake | J |
Of singing and to charm away | I |
My own or other's ache | J |
To close the wound to soothe the smart | K |
To heal the feud of years | L |
And move the misbelieving heart | K |
To tenderness and tears | M |
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And when to me should come the night | B |
And I could sing no more | N |
And faithful lips could but recite | B |
What I had sung before | N |
I would not have a pompous strain | O |
Resound about my shroud | P |
Nor sepulchre in sumptuous fane | O |
Near to the great and proud | P |
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But only they who loved me best | Q |
Should bear me and my lyre | R |
And lay us with my kin at rest | Q |
Under the hamlet spire | R |
Where everything around still breathes | S |
Of prayer that soothes and saves | T |
And widowed hands bear cottage wreaths | U |
To unforgotten graves | T |
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And they might raise another cross | V |
Within that hallowed ground | W |
And tend the flowers and trim the moss | V |
About my grassy mound | W |
But honouring me would carve above | X |
No impious boast of Fame | Y |
And not for Glory but for Love | X |
Would keep alive my name ' | - |
Alfred Austin
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